Thanks Shamus, this is great.
Incidentally, if you store a copy of "pop-chords.ly" in your lilypond's
usr/share/lilypond/current/ly folder (or somewhere else in LilyPond's
path) you can call it using \include just like the language-settings
files (i.e. without having to put a copy of it in your current working
directory).
I will get much use from this.
Shamus wrote:
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Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Tim McNamara wrote:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Tim McNamara wrote:
On Feb 22, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Grammostola Rosea wrote:
Hi,
How do I make chords with the 5th an half tone lower or higher
(e.g. b5 or #5)?
for example
Am7(b5)
or
D7(#5)
I just asked this same question a couple of weeks ago. The standard
way would be:
Am7(b5) for two beats = a2:m7.5- which will render as Aø
D7(#5) for four beats = d1:7.5+ which will render as D7/#5
You can do #9 or b9, etc. this way. All the altered notes will be
preceded by a slash except the major 7th, m7b5 and diminished chords
which are denoted by a delta, diminished sign or half-diminished
sign respectively.
There are other options for rendering the chords which involve
setting up a file of chord markups. For more information, look in
the mailing list archives for the thread "Hello! and question about
jazz chords" for more details. The thread started 10 Feb 2009.
Thanks!
Yeah it would be nice if jazz chords will be improved in Lilypond,
like it was suggested in the link you gave...
Well, the jazz chord rendering follows a set of conventions, just not
the ones established at Berklee and in the Real Book. There's really
nothing wrong with it except that it's not what most jazz musicians
will expect (and the slash is a bit confusing- "is the #5 in the
bass?"). But I've been handed lots of charts at rehearsals with the
chords rendered the way LilyPond does it.
No nothing wrong at all. But maybe it is nice to have both (different)
options to display the chords...
This has been a contentious issue for me as well--while in the past the
chord rendering was really awful, the situation *is* much improved today
now that it is possible to override the defaults. Also, there just
doesn't seem to be much agreement on how chords should be rendered even
in category subsets like jazz or pop for that matter.
So my solution has been to maintain a separate file with chord
definitions that I like (side note: it would be nice to be able to
simply include the file and get results that you expect, much like when
you include a language file). I'm including mine here so you can get an
idea of how it's done and how to use it (mebbe I should post this on LSR?).
Perhaps in the future the authors might make a contrib folder for a
whole bunch of different chord styles and make it as easy to use as
including the right file. I don't know how much work would be involved,
but it seems like it would go a long way towards alleviating these kinds
of posts that inevitably crop up as more and more people discover that
they can do really nice lead sheets with lilypond. :-)
- -- Shamus
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